From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C211F68B; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:00:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eadler@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8148FC1B; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qB7D0uLb099108; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:00:56 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from eadler@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id qB7D0uAS099105; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:00:56 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201212071300.qB7D0uAS099105@svn.freebsd.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:00:56 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40296 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:00:56 -0000 Author: eadler Date: Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 2012 New Revision: 40296 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40296 Log: Update question relating to why sh(1) is minimal. PR: 174029 Submitted by: Derek Wood Reviewed by: jilles Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Dec 7 13:00:53 2012 (r40295) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 2012 (r40296) @@ -3986,13 +3986,10 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82 - Because &posix; says that there shall be such a - shell. - - The more complicated answer: many people need to write + Many people need to write shell scripts which will be portable across many systems. That is why &posix; specifies the shell and utility commands - in great detail. Most scripts are written in Bourne shell, + in great detail. Most scripts are written in Bourne shell (&man.sh.1;), and because several important programming interfaces (&man.make.1;, &man.system.3;, &man.popen.3;, and analogues in higher-level scripting languages like Perl and Tcl) are @@ -4008,7 +4005,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82 other shells have. That is why the Ports Collection includes more featureful shells like bash, scsh, - tcsh, and zsh. (You + &man.tcsh.1;, and zsh. (You can compare for yourself the memory utilization of all these shells by looking at the VSZ and RSS columns in a ps